A lot of people think that career advice

is about doing the right thing,

networking, resumes, stuff like that.

The most important thing that will hold

you back in your career is yourself. I'm

not like my dad who wakes up and makes

all the right choices and grinds. I'm

I'm weak on the inside. Does that mean

I'm screwed? We're sold on the promise

of a career and then find ourselves like

in a dead-end job with no way of of

getting out of this mess. So like things

are becoming really difficult. I went to

a career counselor. I feel weak within

me. I destroyed my career by not doing

what I wanted. Okay, tell me more about

it. I've been a person who posted

various memes and [ __ ] posts here. Thank

you so much. And you guys were awesome

to reply to my weird memes. Thanks for

your support. I went to a career

counselor and he helped me figure out my

future options. He also understood and

praised me to go through my mental

fatigue or should I say my mental

construct. So interesting. He told me

about my sensitivity and I know that I'm

aware. The last thing I realized going

to him, I hate myself for not being my

father. Let me explain. My father is

someone who will you will consider an

ideal caretaker. Knows everything, deals

with everything and suffers and

protects. That's all good and I want to

be like him. The problem is I feel weak.

His choice of career, his choice on

dealing with life with problems are

really effective, strong and willpower,

endurance focused. I feel weak. I feel

incompetent. My choices I feel like I'm

just being ragdalled by life. While he

he and my other siblings choose what

they do cuz they are strong and they

move ahead. I don't know whether he

feels the same. I will say this version

of him is a projection of judgment of my

mind onto my choices because he is

really loving and wants me to progress.

Anyhow, no pressure. I know I can't

remove sensitivity or anything, but at

least I don't want to feel ashamed of

myself every time. I feel once I really

grind on my career as I've already lost

it, but if I still if I make it good,

then maybe I won't be ashamed and me a

strong person in myself. But I don't

know whether it will help or not. It's

not about father or family. It's about

being feeling weak from within. All the

choices, all the reactions, not wanting

to be in this world and everything.

Okay? So, if you're someone who

struggles with your career because you

are not good enough, right? Cuz there

are other people out there who wake up

and they love the grind set. Like, I'm

I'm going to grind. I'm going to do

good. I'm going to do great. It's going

to be awesome. I wake up and I feel like

working. Like, that's just not me. I'm

weak. I'm not like these people. See, we

have this idea that there are certain

things, certain qualities that make us

successful in careers. And we have lots

of like scientific research to back this

up. So I I love this paper, right? So if

you're struggling with your career, we

have papers like this. Personality

traits and career satisfaction of health

care professionals. Okay. Two traits

that were particularly strong among

health care workers were also

significantly correlated with career

satisfaction. work drive and

conscientiousness. So we have a lot of

research that tells us that if you want

to be successful in your career, there

are certain personality traits like you

have to be conscientious. What does

conscientiousness mean? It means that

when you have a goal, you work

consistently towards it. You have to be

a hard worker. That's what it takes to

be successful. Now the problem is many

of us, myself included, were born with

low conscientiousness. So, what happens

if you don't have the traits that are

necessary for succeeding in a career?

Because there's all this research about

like people who work hard and people who

who wake up every day and and are

grinding, they're the ones that are

successful. I'm not like them. I'm a

weak person. I'm not like I'm not like

my dad who wakes up and makes all the

right choices and grinds. I'm I'm weak

on the inside. Does that mean I'm

screwed? And that's where thankfully the

answer is no. And there's more research

that we can get into cuz I've worked

with a ton of people who are lazy like I

am. and we discover ways for them to

succeed in their careers. Especially in

the world that we live in right now

where things are hard, jobs are being

replaced by AI, people are getting

underpaid, we're sold on the promise of

a career and then find ourselves like in

a dead-end job with no way of of getting

out of this mess. So like things are

becoming really difficult. And so part

of the reason that we started this

career coaching program, we have a

career coaching program at HG and we

started it and the reason that we're

successful with it is because we

discovered something really important. A

lot of people think that career advice

is about doing the right thing,

networking, resume, stuff like that. The

most important thing that will hold you

back in your career is yourself. The way

that you deal with your internal self.

What judgments do you make about

yourself? What are your hang-ups? What

are the stuff? What are the things that

you're trying to prove to everybody

around you that causes you to choose

things? In my case, it was I'm going to

be a doctor because doctors are great

and they get respect. I'm going to be a

doctor. I'm going to be the best doctor.

I'm going to go to Harvard and then

everyone I will walk into the room and I

will be the sexiest MF in the room.

Everyone would be like, "Wow, look at

that guy. He went to Harvard." And what

did I end up doing? Promptly ended up

[ __ ] failing a bunch of classes

because everything was ego-driven. If

you want to succeed in your career, you

have to understand yourself. So, here's

what I mean by that. So we live in a

weird society right now because success

in your career let's say used to be 50%

internal and 50% external like uh this

person said it comes down to luck

circumstances connections right so

success in a career you got to work on

yourself and you got to work the system

so there's something weird going on

right now which is that the world is

getting worse which means that the

external forces that are determining

your career success are actually growing

like the economy sucks okay there's

inflation there's AI there's all kinds

of problems. So, what I'm noticing for

the people that we work with is that the

world is getting harder to succeed in.

Do you agree or you disagree? Okay. What

do y'all think? So, if the world is

getting to be a harder place, there is

less you can do about it. Okay. Right.

Cuz things are just so hard. Like, it's

so challenging. There's less you can do

about it. So, here's the really crazy

thing. The less you can do about it, the

more intern the more important it is to

do. So, interestingly enough, I think

you guys should be investing more over

here because this is really the only

thing that you can control. This is the

real thing that you can optimize. When

the world is stacked against you, you

need to be 100%. Like, you can't afford

to be anything less than 100%

internally. This needs to be optimized

to 100%. Because this certainly ain't

working in your favor. So, interestingly

enough, the harder that the external

world has become, the more important it

is to fix yourself. Now, that may sound

once again insane, but let me show you

all the converse. Let's say that I'm

alive in the '60s. So, in the '60s, the

path to success is go to college, do a

bunch of psychedelics, waltz into an

investment bank, get a job before

everything became so optimized and

financially like scary or whatever,

right? I could buy a house for like

$65,000 a year, support a family of four

here in the United States with a single

income with like maybe a bachelor's

degree, and it was like totally fine. I

get promoted because everything was

everything's easy. When the world used

to be easier, people didn't have to

internally work on themselves. They they

could just [ __ ] slide into a

successful job. They could fall into a

successful job, which is why we get such

terrible advice from some boomers. The

boomers are like, "Just put yourself out

there." They didn't need to do any of

this silly emotional work and

understanding yourself and all this like

stuff that these youngans do nowadays.

You don't need to do any of that in my

day. We had to walk six miles in the

snow and then we graduated from college

and we landed ourselves a vice

presidential job at an electrical

engineering company. That's just how it

worked back in the day. You just apply

yourself. You just show up. You show

that you have some grit by showing up

and then you show up and then you show

up and people just give you piles of

money. That's all it took. Kids nowadays

don't know how to show up. That's their

problem. Changing your life isn't easy.

When I was flunking out of college, I

had to travel all the way to an ashram

in India to begin a 7-year journey to

put my life back together.

Unfortunately, that option isn't

available to everyone. That's why I've

taken most of what I've learned,

distilled it into the most important

points, not just from India, but also my

years of training as a psychiatrist,

into our coaching program. Coaches will

help you set appropriate goals, maintain

motivation, and hold you accountable.

Thousands of people from all over the

world have tried HG coaching and have

seen sustained improvements in purpose

and direction in life and even

reductions in feelings of depression and

anxiety. So, if you're interested in

putting your life together but don't

have 7 years to wander around India,

definitely check out HG Coaching.

So, back in their day, you didn't have

to do a whole lot of selfwork because

the world was like easier, right? And I

think we have good objective indicators

of this things like first uh you know

the housing price index compared to

median income. You know the value of a

degree how much a degree improves your

earning power. There's so many strong

economic indicators that this is not

just someone catering to the millennials

and Gen Z like I'm trying to like get

views and like click and subscribe or

whatever the [ __ ] people on YouTube say.

Like this this is real. That's just how

it worked back then. So, interestingly

enough, the easier the world is, the

less you have to do, right? And this is

where it's like when I'm playing the

tutorial of a video game, I don't need

to have all of my moves polished because

what I'm up against is not difficult.

And now the problem is that the world

that we're up against is very difficult,

is stacked against us. This is why it is

incredibly important that you optimize

yourself because the world certainly

ain't coming banging down your door and

being like, "Oh, please, please come to

our AI startup and we will pay you. I'm

going to I'm we are doing I'm Hi, I'm

Meta and we're going to pay billion

dollars to AI engineers. Please come and

work with us and we'll pay you hundred

million dollars a year. Please sir, come

please." No one's doing that, right?

Meta is doing it with AI engineers, but

you have to be one of those people in

order to get that. And I hear that

they're also scaling back. You guys get

what I'm saying? So question becomes,

how do you work on yourself? Right? What

do you do? Now, here's the big problem

is that most of the advice that we get

is like kind of generic. It assumes a

certain kind of personality. And this is

why I love being alive today. Because we

have this cool thing called science. And

if we look at science, science will give

us answers about how to succeed in the

career place. And I've seen this when I

do my own coaching with my clients and

in the patients I've worked with. We're

going to go now things are going to get

bit technical. Okay. So strap yourselves

in. I'm going to make it as accessible

as possible. The main research aim was

to explore at a detailed level

relationships between enduring personal

characteristics and a resilient approach

to work and career. Very similar to this

other paper, but they dug deeper. And

when you dig deeper, you discover

something really interesting. Okay. In

order to have a positive career

experience and success, you need a

resilient approach to work and career.

Duh. Be resilient. Then you will

succeed. But what does this mean? This

means that there are situational

influences. Great. We talked about this,

right? These are external circumstances.

How lucky you are. And there are stable

attributes. These two things, there's

internal stuff, there's external stuff.

If you develop it in the right way, you

will be resilient. And then that'll lead

to success. So now let's get dig a

little bit deeper. What does resilience

actually mean? So these are the four

things that lead to being resilient.

Organization and career satisfaction.

How how satisfied you are with the

organization that you work for and how

satisfied you are with your career. How

involved you are. Job satisfaction and

workplace pressure. How much pressure

you're under and career planning. Now

here's the really cool thing. They

looked at various personality attributes

like neuroticism, extraversion,

openness, agreeableness, critical

thinking, conscientiousness. We look at

this paper. This paper says

conscientiousness good, everything else

bad. This paper goes a little bit

deeper. Okay, so now this is what's

really, really, really cool. Okay,

results for regression of organization

and career satisfaction. This is that

first box. Okay, this is this box over

here. So now what this study is

basically looking at is how do these

things affect these four boxes. And now

we're going to discover something really

cool. One of these is not better than

all of the others. All of these are

useful if you know how to use them

properly. And that's what the study

showed. If you're neurotic and not

conscientious, that's actually okay. You

just need to play to your strengths.

Organization and career satisfaction

indicated that age was a significant

predictor. So lesson number one we need

to learn if you are unhappy in your

career and you are 24 years old or 22

years old or 31 years old as you give it

more time your satisfaction will improve

but that's not something that's

actionable it just means don't lose

hope. Okay. So, assertiveness. So, how

assertive you are. Aesthetic

appreciation negatively correlates.

Straightforwardness.

Don't mess around. And impulsiveness.

Okay. So, even being impulsive can lead

to career satisfaction. So, career and

job involvement involve that achievement

striving significantly predicted. Career

and job involvement. This doesn't this

is makes a lot of sense, right? So,

achievement striving. So, trying to be

good. Okay. as did openness to ideas,

being open-minded. So, this is cool,

y'all. I want to just pause for a second

and like really help y'all. I I want

this to dig in, sink in. This isn't just

the hardest working people. What this

means is that there are certain

attributes like being open-minded, being

impulsive. Both of these things have

actually been shown to improve

resilience when they are used in the

right way. Okay, let's keep going.

Regression for job satisfaction and

workplace pressure. Hostility

significantly predicted job satisfaction

and workplace pressure in the negative.

This is a negative number. So it more

hostile means less things. And here's

the other really interesting thing, not

surprising at all. The more imaginative

you are, the less likely you are to be

satisfied with your job, right? Cuz it's

like, hey, we could be doing it so many

different ways. I'm not a bot. I can

think of a better way to do it. Now,

here's what's really interesting. Career

planning age significantly predicted

career planning. Achievements driving

predicted it. Straightforwardness

doesn't predict it, which is

interesting. Openness to ideas predicts

it in a positive way here. Imagination

less so. Okay. So, what does this mean?

I know this is a bit complicated. I'm

going to try to simplify it for you all.

So, if you're struggling to find success

in your career, there are a couple

things you need to understand. There's

external stuff that you can do. You can

network. You can work on your resume.

All that kind of stuff. What we found in

in career coaching, which is probably

our most successful program to date, it

uh started off pretty slow. All the sl

spots didn't fill up when we uh got it

three or four years ago, but every year

we're adding more and more spots because

the demand for it is huge and it works

really well. And what we learned is that

first of all, you have to work on

yourself, your own internal issues. As

you get better as a human being, your

career progress will improve. Especially

in today's world. Today's world is one

that will take advantage of you. Today's

world is one that will mismeasure you.

We'll measure you. We'll say that we're

going to give you a promotion and then

not give you a promotion where you're

you're you're trying to make your boss

happy. Your boss is taking advantage of

you. It sucks out there. So, you need to

be internally strong. Now what I've seen

as a psychiatrist is that there are some

things which if you have like if you're

a hardworking person that may lead to

career success but in today's world if

you're a hardworking person that may

lead you to just get taken advantage of.

I see this I had a patient who worked in

investment banking and this this patient

was a superstar. So interestingly enough

went to a community college didn't go to

a super fancy college worked really hard

was in the military. went to college

afterward, finished at a community

college, did an interview at an

investment bank, like a mid-tier

investment bank, and absolutely knocked

it out of the park and did really,

really well. Was hardworking, ended up

moving to a different investment bank,

ended up moving to a third investment

bank. That happens in investment

banking. And so, he was at a top tier

investment bank, one of the best out

there, does billion-dollar deals with

huge companies that y'all have heard of.

And so that as he started to work harder

and harder and harder, he started to run

into problems because his boss realized

he's a workhorse. And as long as this

person is underneath me and doing my

work, I will get a lot of reward. And

one day he even took him aside and he

said, "You're going to make me a lot of

money on this deal." That's like

literally what his boss told him. Like

to his face. Can y'all imagine that? So

we say conscientiousness works. It does,

but only up until a point. All of your

personality attributes, whether you're

neurotic, whether you're

conscientiousness, what, it doesn't

matter. These can help you or hurt you.

You have to understand the hand that

you're dealt. Being dealt a two of

hearts and a four of hearts in Texas

Holde poker is actually not a bad hand.

It's a two and a four. They're weird,

but you've got flush opportunities,

you've got straight opportunities,

there's all kinds of stuff going on

there, right? You just have to know.

It's not as simple as these attributes

are successful, these attributes are not

successful. So, we talked a little bit

about how conscientiousness and a

tendency towards hard work can actually

get you in trouble. I've had plenty of

patients who work really hard and just

get taken advantage of, do plenty of

work that is not compensated or

appreciated. They do a lot of extra,

burn themselves out. So, if you're

someone who works really, really, really

hard, what I want you to think about,

ask yourself one question. What is the

ROI of my effort? What is the return on

my investment? What do I get when I work

hard? How much of this is truly

appreciated? Another one that people

have a lot of trouble with neuroticism.

So we tend to think about neuroticism

which is the tendency toward to see

problems as a negative characteristic.

So people who are high on neuroticism

have more anxiety. They have more

paranoia. Life is harder. But

neuroticism is very important for

predicting problems. So people who end

up as doctors have they're high on

neuroticism and they're high on

conscientiousness. So when I am afraid

I'm going to fail, even when I've

studied so much and I sit at home on a

Friday night and I study extra because

I'm paranoid and I'm anxious that I'm

going to fail, that's who ends up with a

4.0 GPA. Instead of partying with my

friends, I'm staying sitting at home

study even studying even though I

studied enough. So the key thing about

neuroticism is you need some degree of

emotional regulation to not let the

neuroticism take control of you. So the

way that you should treat it is this is

my mind telling me that there are

particular problems that I could

encounter. Let me think about what those

problems are. Let me make a plan to deal

with those problems. I'm going to do

that stuff and then I am done. That is

what healthy neuroticism looks like.

It's considering problems and then

implementing plans to fix them. And then

sometimes it gets to be a bit too much.

But often times what happens is that's

not how we deal with neuroticism. We try

to shut it down. We try to distract it

etc. Now, agreeableness is another

really, really interesting one. So, this

is a good example of something that is

both good and bad. It is not like good,

it's both depending on how you use it.

So, people who are highly agreeable are

likely to agree with other people. So,

it's like, okay, if you want to do it

that way, that's totally fine with me.

So, agreeableness is one of these things

that if you're too agreeable, you'll get

taken advantage of. And if you're not

agreeable enough, people will dislike

working with you. So it's really about

understanding what are the ways that you

are not agreeable and then thinking

about how can I implement these kinds of

things in a positive way. So I'll give

you all an example. If you don't like

the way that your manager does does

something totally makes sense, right?

They're doing something wrong. You have

to be a little bit careful about it. But

often times companies reward people who

want to improve things. So just because

you don't want to do it your your

manager's way, there's a certain amount

of skill set to voicing your concerns.

You always want to tie things back to

ROI. So if you're advocating for change

in a system, this is where I see so many

like posts on the internet and things

like that and people complaining in real

life, stuff at my job sucks and I tried

to tell them it sucks and then I got

fired for it. My manager is power

tripping, has ego issues, but what

they're doing is terrible. And that's

where depending on how you do it,

there's a certain finesse. This is

something that can get you punished or

something that can get you rewarded. So

if you see a problem at work, first of

all, tie things to ROI. Don't blame

people for it. Don't get angry about it.

Go to your boss and say, "Hey, I noticed

that you do things a certain way. Would

you be open to talking about a slight

change? I had a thought." So be

differential. Right? I had a thought.

What do you think about it? Right? So

this is where like often times we get

really really bent out of shape and we

want to do things a particular way and

then we go to people we're like and

that's what happens with low

agreeableness. With low agreeableness

you have no patience for other people's

idiocy and so you have to learn how to

tone that down a little bit. But that

low agreeableness is giving you a path

towards improving things at the

workplace. That's what's beautiful about

it. Okay. Conscientiousness we talked

about. Neuroticism we talked about.

Agreeableness we talked about. This is

what's really cool. extraversion and uh

open uh openness. Okay, so first thing

is openness is super cool. So I don't

know if you all remember but openness

for some of these factors it improved

things. For some of these factors I

think it may have made them worse.

That's really important to understand.

So openness is being open to new things,

being open to thinking about things

differently, receiving new information,

trying things differently. And generally

speaking, when we're more open, we tend

to be happier. So if you're someone who

has super low openness, you should

really think about, okay, how can I see

this differently, really work on your

cognitive flexibility. My mind is

producing things in this particular way.

How can I think about it differently?

And generally speaking, the more open we

are, the more the more flexible we are,

the more satisfied we will be with our

job. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean

that your job is better or worse. It is

just I don't know if this makes sense.

People who are open are willing to

consider perspectives that are not their

own. And what I see as a psychiatrist is

when people get really stuck in their

own heads. Oh, this is this is the way

that my work is and this is the way that

my job is and it's terrible and it's

terrible. It's terrible. They don't have

any flexibility around that and they

just suffer as a result. So people who

are low openness tend to suffer a lot

because they can't once they get a a bad

taste in their mouth or the bad thought

in their head, they have a lot of

difficulty getting out of it. Last one

is extroversion. So this is where

another one of those things where a lot

of papers will say the more extroverted

you are the more successful you will be

in the workplace. That is both true and

untrue. So there are some studies that

work at a very high level will say

extroversion is good in the workplace.

Generally speaking that's true because

what matters in the workplace is not

that you're an extrovert is that you

form relationships. And extroverts are

like social butterflies. They like to

come over here and they like to talk to

you for five minutes and then go over

there and talk over there for five

minutes. I'm seeing a lot of this

especially with extroverted managers who

are advocating for return to office

after remote work because they hate

being on Zoom. They don't get the

extrovert energy that they really,

really, really love. Now, here's the key

thing to understand. Relationships are

important to advance at work. But you

don't need to be have an extra be an

extrovert to have a relationship. In

fact, oftenimes introverts love

relationships. Introverts love 3 hours

with one person where we're diving deep

into one particular topic. It's not that

you have to be an extrovert. It is that

even an introverted relationship, I

think the best networking that happens

happens between introverts. And the kind

of stuff that a lot of people are

terrified of if you're an introvert is

exactly what we excel at. Like the boss

wants to play a round of golf, you

should absolutely go with them. I mean,

if you can't play golf, it's a different

story. But that one-on-one time, which

can be intimidating at first, that's

where introverts actually shine. It's

not that we're we're we want to be

isolated. It's that we don't we get

sensory stimulus overload. So, when

we're at a party, we hate it. When we're

at a mixer, we hate it. Right? So, this

is something that I find is very

helpful. You have some mixer. We've got

some extrovert who's like, "Oh man, like

that's so funny. Like, we're gonna do

karaoke." And like, you're like, "Oh my

god, not this [ __ ] again. I don't want

to do karaoke. Right? So, you can do

something really cool after the party's

over. Next day, go talk to your boss and

be like, "Hey, you know, I it was cool

going to the the party. We didn't really

get a chance to talk very much. I was

wondering if you wanted to grab coffee

sometime. I'd love to just catch up."

Create introverted experiences. Me, you,

one person. Form a tight relationship

with these people. And you will find

that when you engage with someone, that

can be a little bit tricky because

there's also social anxiety and shyness

that are technically different from

introversion. So you have to overcome

some of that stuff. But introverts can

absolutely excel in the workplace. I

often times find that the most

introverted people. So really good

example of this is like Tyrion

Lannister. If you guys have seen Game of

Thrones, read Game of Thrones. Tyrion is

an introvert, but he's very good at

forming one-on-one relationships and

having meaningful interactions, right?

So really good example of this is like

if you guys watch I think Game of

Thrones illustrated this well. If you

look at Tyrion Lannister's relationship

with Jon Snow, look at how that

develops. It's like pure introvert

artwork. So, how do you take advantage

of all of these attributes? What do you

practically do with this? So, a couple

of things that I think are very

important. The first is planning. When I

work with people who do not do well in

their careers, they don't plan. So if

you take all the people who are like

successful and in med school and and in

investment banking and stuff there's one

attribute that many of them share which

is that they plan this is the stuff that

you can do right so someone decides to

be premed at the age of 15 they do a lot

a lot of volunteer work then they go to

college they major in premed they get

into a good college because they did a

lot of high work in high school they

plan ahead then they go to med school

they plan they think about what's the

next step so often times when I'm

working with people who feel like

they're stuck in deadend jobs. That's

because they're not thinking about

what's I feel like I'm stuck over here,

but what are my options? What comes

next? Even a dead-end job is work

experience for another job. This job may

have no upward mobility, but other jobs

may have upward mobility. If I work for

two years over here and I become maybe

assistant manager, but don't rise above

that, maybe I can become a full manager

somewhere else. Maybe I can become an

assistant manager somewhere else. So

practically what I do with people is to

ask yourself, okay, for whatever your

your situation is now, what does one

step forward look like? If that step

doesn't work, what's plan B? What's plan

C? So I did this exercise with someone

on stream many years ago. It's one that

I love a lot, which is take your dream

job and reverse engineer it. So I was

talking to someone who was saying, I

want to be a I want to be a developer at

Riot Games. And so we looked at the job

description for a developer of Riot

Games. That is a path. It is not an

obstacle. I have to do this. I have to

do this. I have to do this. I have to do

this. I have to do this. That is your

to-do list for the next 5 to seven

years. Absolutely doable. Now, if you do

those things, will you end up at Riot?

Who the hell knows, right? Some of that

is luck. Some of that is external. Some

of that is circumstance. So, to really

think about, okay, what comes next?

That's the most important question you

can ask yourself. What's next? What's

next? What's next? Second thing, this is

one that y'all are going to hate me for.

Critical thinking. Most of y'all don't

know how to do critical thinking. Most

of us, very few human beings get trained

in critical thinking. Okay? We think

that we think critically, but we don't.

There's a guy who won a Nobel Prize in

economics named Daniel Conorman who

basically showed us that most human

beings on the planet don't know how to

critically think. It's not a disc. I

don't critically think half the time

anyway. So, I'm going to tell you all

what critical thinking actually is. So,

in medical school, they teach us

critical thinking. And the reason they

teach us critical thinking is because if

we don't learn critical thinking, then

patients have problems. So what does

critical thinking mean? The way that the

mind usually works is when I see a

situation, my mind gives me an answer.

It just floats up an answer and I

believe that the answer was thought

through critically. But that's not

usually what happens. So in medicine, we

get trained in something called

differential diagnosis. And differential

diagnosis is really simple, but it's

hard to do. It's actually very hard to

do, which is when you see a patient, all

of your medical training is going to

tell you this patient has this problem.

Oh, this kid comes in, looks like the

flu, flu is going around, seems like

they've got the flu. Oh, the flu test is

negative, but flu tests are negative 30%

of the time. So maybe they're the one

out of three people that has a negative

flu test. They've got the flu. That's

when patients run into trouble. We have

to do something called differential

diagnosis. It could be the flu, could be

COVID, could be myoma, could be an

occult cancer, could be an autoimmune

disease, could be a mold allergy, could

be all kinds of things. So, we have to

train ourselves to consider all of the

things that we did not think about. That

is what critical thinking really is. So,

there's one really difficult and useful

exercise for critical thinking as it

relates to career. Write a page about

your career situation. Why you are the

way the in in the place that you are?

What are the factors that have led you

to this career situation? Right? So,

where are you and how did you get here?

Then what we're going to do is be

critical of that. What critical means is

whatever you think, you need to learn

how to think the opposite. You need to

be able to steal man. The argument that

opposes whatever you believe. Most

people are not capable of this. I don't

have a job because the economy sucks. It

is true that you do not have a job. It

is true that the economy sucks. It is

true that we are in endstage capitalism.

Fine. And a lot of people still have

jobs. That is what it means to be

critical of your thinking. And

literally, this is what we try to do in

coaching and in therapy and things like

that, right? Patients will come in. If

I'm a psychiatrist, a patient will come

in and they will think about their life

in a particular way and they have a lot

of great data to support their beliefs.

That is not what critical thinking is.

Critical thinking is thinking in a way

that is critical of what you believe and

all the reasons that you believe it.

It's very hard to do to pick apart to

genuinely pick apart your beliefs. Hey

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